Re: KDE v. Gnome

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From: Phil Hunt
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 00:00

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In article <WXE*nb+Gn@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>
           damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk "David Damerell" writes:
> Thandor <homer_j_simpson@my-dejanews.com> wrote:
> >That greatly depends on the program. Some programs make no sense to be run
> >non-interactively. Why would I want to run a game non interactively for
> >example? (Just the first example off the top of my head, there are plenty
> >of others).
> 
> Perhaps I am trying to write a bot to play the game for me.

What would be really cool would be for people to write bots to
play a game like Civilisation, and have all the bots play each other
it see which is best. If this sort of thing took off, the quality
of programmed opponents would increase over time (like it has done
with computer chess).

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From: philh@vision25.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt)
Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome
Date: 1998/09/28
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